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1952 Wisconsin Badgers football team

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Conference
  
Big Ten Conference

AP
  
No. 11

MVP
  
Dave Suminski

Coaches
  
No. 10

1952 record
  
6–3–1 (4–1–1 Big Ten)

Head coach
  
Ivy Williamson (4th year)

The 1952 Wisconsin Badgers football team represented the University of Wisconsin in the 1952 Big Ten Conference football season. The Badgers offense scored 228 points while the defense allowed 150 points.

Season

  • The Badgers tied Minnesota, and neither team claimed Paul Bunyan's Axe.
  • Wisconsin played in the 1953 Rose Bowl, the program's first bowl game appearance.
  • Wisconsin spent one week at #1 in the AP Poll for the first and only time its history (since 1936, with the inception of the AP Poll).

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    1952 Wisconsin Badgers football team Wikipedia
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